Faculty Refuse to Sign 'Lifestyle Statement,' Resign From Christian University
Dozens of faculty and staff at a Georgian Christian academic institute are resigning over a statement from school officials in which employees must pledge to refrain from activities including drug use, alcohol, adultery, and homosexuality.
Known as the "personal lifestyle statement," around 50 members of the faculty and staff at Shorter University based in Rome, Ga., have chosen to resign rather than renew their contracts at the private school.
Dr. J. Robert White, executive director of the Georgia Baptist Convention, which Shorter is a part of, told The Christian Post that the "lifestyle statement" is consistent with the convention's position....
Further into the article the statement is different and more appropriate. It states "According to the document, which faculty and staff were obliged to sign, an employee of Shorter could not among other things take part in drug use, premarital sex, adultery, and homosexuality."
I remember being pretty good at Sesame Street's "One of These Things" game. In this list: drug use, alcohol, adultery and homosexuality, "one of these things just doesn't belong."
Can you guess?
Perhaps Shorter is self-destructing as its administration has attempted to bind men's consciences over this single adiaphora.
Why would those faculty and staff at that Chrsitian university refuse to sign a pledge refraining from drug use, alcohol, adultery and homosexuality? If they refuse to sign that pledge then obviously they are not Fundamentalist Protestant Christians
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